Vampire: The Masquerade, created by Mark Rein·Hagen, is the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness live-action and role-playing games. It is based on the Storyteller System and involves vampires in a modern Gothic-Punk world. The Revised Edition (sometimes instead referred to as the Third Edition by fans) was released in 1998. It explains that "the setting of Vampire is a composite of its populace and their despair". Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Vampire: The Masquerade.